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Native GeForce Now App Coming to Steam Deck (blogs.nvidia.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is actually pretty huge because it means fortnite, valorant and all those esports games with kernel-level anticheat will be playable* on the steam deck and subsequently linux.

*I don't care how awful the service may be if it helps with mainstream linux adoption.

[–] Rentlar 3 points 3 weeks ago

You're absolutely right. GeForce Now IMO is a shitty service and I wouldn't use it, but I'm glad it's available for those that want to play R6Siege, Valorant, Fortnite etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

But why?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

For games that the deck struggles to run?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

AFAIK the Steam Deck doesn’t have NVIDIA hardware in it, so I don’t see how it would help.

Edit: GeForce NOW is a cloud game streaming service and doesn’t require any NVIDIA hardware.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago

@DarkDarkHouse @Robin Geforce now is for streaming games running in the "cloud", not for configuring a local GPU.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

You might be thinking of GeForce Experience.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Money

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Took these fuckers far too long